Rappelant ou d\u00e9couvrant effectivement les multiples facettes de l’\u00e9normit\u00e9 consid\u00e9rable du Pentagone, pour les possessions terriennes pour le texte pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent<\/a> de cette rubrique, nous allons \u00e0 nouveau p\u00eacher chez TomDispatch<\/em> (relay\u00e9 par Antiwar.com<\/em>) un autre texte, vieux de pr\u00e8s d’un mois, sur la consommation en p\u00e9trole du Pentagone. Un formidable texte de Michael T. Klare, datant du 15 juin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe Pentagone formidable consommateur de p\u00e9trole. Plus que la Suisse, si on fait bien les comptes. Le Pentagone, qui s’av\u00e8re un acteur central de la d\u00e9structuration physique et g\u00e9ographique du monde, ici par la consommation\/pollution, l\u00e0 par les investissements terriens qui d\u00e9gradent l’environnement, autant qu’il est un acteur central de cette d\u00e9structuration par la guerre et la gabegie bureaucratique. Le Pentagone r\u00e9sume notre monde, il r\u00e9sume la modernit\u00e9, il est<\/strong> la modernit\u00e9 et la crise de la modernit\u00e9 tout ensemble. Pas \u00e9tonnant que les intellectuels lib\u00e9raux europ\u00e9ens aient \u00e9pous\u00e9 sa cause avec enthousiasme depuis le Kosovo (1999). (Pour nos amis qui ont besoin d’un guide pour visiter le zoo de l’autre plan\u00e8te : un gallon fait un peu plus de 4 litres.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abSixteen gallons of oil. That’s how much the average American soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan consumes on a daily basis either directly, through the use of Humvees, tanks, trucks, and helicopters, or indirectly, by calling in air strikes. Multiply this figure by 162,000 soldiers in Iraq, 24,000 in Afghanistan, and 30,000 in the surrounding region (including sailors aboard U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf) and you arrive at approximately 3.5 million gallons of oil: the daily petroleum tab for U.S. combat operations in the Middle East war zone.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMultiply that daily tab by 365 and you get 1.3 billion gallons: the estimated annual oil expenditure for U.S. combat operations in Southwest Asia. That’s greater than the total annual oil usage of Bangladesh, population 150 million and yet it’s a gross underestimate of the Pentagon’s wartime consumption.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbSuch numbers cannot do full justice to the extraordinary gas-guzzling expense of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After all, for every soldier stationed \u00a0\u00bbin theater,\u00a0\u00bb there are two more in transit, in training, or otherwise in line for eventual deployment to the war zone soldiers who also consume enormous amounts of oil, even if less than their compatriots overseas. Moreover, to sustain an \u00a0\u00bbexpeditionary\u00a0\u00bb army located halfway around the world, the Department of Defense must move millions of tons of arms, ammunition, food, fuel, and equipment every year by plane or ship, consuming additional tanker-loads of petroleum. Add this to the tally and the Pentagon’s war-related oil budget jumps appreciably, though exactly how much we have no real way of knowing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAnd foreign wars, sad to say, account for but a small fraction of the Pentagon’s total petroleum consumption. Possessing the world’s largest fleet of modern aircraft, helicopters, ships, tanks, armored vehicles, and support systems virtually all powered by oil the Department of Defense (DoD) is, in fact, the world’s leading consumer of petroleum. It can be difficult to obtain precise details on the DoD’s daily oil hit, but an April 2007 report by a defense contractor, LMI Government Consulting, suggests that the Pentagon might consume as much as 340,000 barrels (14 million gallons) every day. This is greater than the total national consumption of Sweden or Switzerland.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en lignne le 12 juillet 2007 \u00e0 10H46<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rappelant ou d\u00e9couvrant effectivement les multiples facettes de l’\u00e9normit\u00e9 consid\u00e9rable du Pentagone, pour les possessions terriennes pour le texte pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent de cette rubrique, nous allons \u00e0 nouveau p\u00eacher chez TomDispatch (relay\u00e9 par Antiwar.com) un autre texte, vieux de pr\u00e8s d’un mois, sur la consommation en p\u00e9trole du Pentagone. Un formidable texte de Michael T. 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